GP3

Ferrari protege Charles Leclerc utterly dominated the opening race of GP3's new era for champion team ART Grand Prix. Leclerc, who made his Formula 1 test debut in a 2014 Ferrari at Fiorano earlier this week in preparation for grand prix practice outings with Haas later this year, blasted past DAMS' front-row pair Jake Hughes and Kevin Jorg at the start. There was no stopping Leclerc thereafter, ...

Antonio Fuoco and Jordan King will get opportunities with Ferrari and Manor at the first Formula 1 in-season test of 2016 at Barcelona next week. For 19-year-old Italian Fuoco, a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy and competing with Trident in GP3 this season, it will be his second outing with the team. Fuoco will be hoping to make more of an impression than was the case in last year's in-seaso...

DAMS swept the front row for its maiden GP3 race in Barcelona qualifying, with Jake Hughes beating Kevin Jorg to pole position. The two Formula Renault 2.0 graduates emerged on top in a frenetic end to the first qualifying session for GP3's all new Dallara GP3/16, in sunny conditions after Friday's damp free practice. The 1m34.632s lap with which Hughes deposed European Formula 3 convert and Ferr...

Richard Gonda was fastest in the first GP3 practice session of 2016 at Barcelona, edging out Jenzer Motorsport teammate Akash Nandy. In a frenetic end to the session, Slovakian Gonda turned a lap of 1m37.032s with five minutes remaining to displace Nandy. With rain falling early, only Matt Parry and Nyck De Vries set times in a tentative start to the first competitive running with the series' new...

Jack Aitken, 2016 GP3 testing, Estoril Reigning Formula Renault Eurocup champion Jack Aitken says his new status as a protege of the Renault Formula 1 team will not add any pressure to his rookie GP3 Series campaign. The 20-year-old, who also won the second-level Formula Renault ALPS series in 2015, steps up to GP3 this year with Arden International. Aitken is one of three FR2.0 graduates selecte...

Ex-Formula 3 European Championship star Jake Dennis has denied that his move to the GP3 Series is a sideways step. Dennis, who finished third in the European F3 points last season, kicks off his GP3 campaign with Arden International at Barcelona this weekend. The 20-year-old Racing Steps Foundation protege is one of a handful of top F3 drivers crossing over to GP3, and a championship win for any ...

Jenzer Motorsport driver Oscar Tunjo set the fastest lap in GP3 testing at Barcelona on Wednesday. Tunjo's time was set in the morning session, with times in the afternoon session being around two seconds slower. Trident driver and Ferrari Driver Academy member Antonio Fuoco was second fastest, followed by Ralph Boschung of Koiranen GP. Tunjo, Fuoco and Boschung were the only drivers to dip into ...

Koiranen GP driver Matthew Parry topped the timings in a rain-affected second day of GP3 Series testing at Valencia. Heavy rain before the session meant the drivers had to be especially cautious early on, but the rain eased off and the track conditions improved throughout the morning. The times came tumbling down in the final few minutes before the break, and Parry just managed to go first, with ...

Trident driver Artur Janosz's morning lap time was enough to place him quickest on day one of the second GP3 Series test at Valencia. The afternoon times were slightly slower â Matt Parry put his Koiranen GP car on top in the later session but it was still two-tenths down on Janosz's time from the morning. It wasn't all smooth for Parry. He was forced to stop on track late into the morning sessio...

GP3 race winner Oscar Tunjo will return to the series with Jenzer Motorsport this year. The Colombian, a sometime Lotus Formula 1 team junior, contested three GP3 Series rounds with Trident in 2015 and claimed a surprise win from ninth on the grid in race two at the Red Bull Ring. The 20-year-old has run with Jenzer in pre-season testing already. Team owner Andreas Jenzer said: "With Oscar we hav...

Ferrari junior Antonio Fuoco dominated the final day of GP3 Series testing at Estoril, topping both morning and afternoon sessions as he had on Wednesday. The times set in the morning session were marginally quicker, with Trident driver Fuoco fastest from Jake Dennis of Arden. Alexander Albon continued his strong form in third for the ART Grand Prix team, three tenths of a second slower than Denn...

Ferrari Formula 1 team protege Antonio Fuoco topped both the morning and afternoon sessions on the second day of the GP3 Series' Estoril test for Trident. Fuoco set the day's fastest time in the morning session, and was nearly three tenths of a second faster than Alexander Albon's ART Grand Prix machine. Jack Aitken ended the morning's running third for Arden, within two hundredths of Albon. Aitk...

Nirei Fukuzumi topped the first day of the GP3 Series test at Estoril for the ART Grand Prix team. The 19-year-old Japanese Formula 3 graduate set his best time in the afternoon session, which featured laptimes nearly a second faster than those posted in the morning. Fukuzumi ended up just 16 thousandths faster than Jake Dennis's Arden machine. The top four were covered by just nine hundredths of...

Formula 1 newcomer Haas has signed the first American driver to its books in Santino Ferrucci. The 17-year-old will serve as the team's development driver, combining the role with a full campaign in GP3 with DAMS. Ferrucci will attend grands prix and tests throughout the year, while also participating in the team's simulator program. "In Formula 1, developing your personnel is as important as dev...

The GP3 Series will make its first appearance at Sepang in 2016, as part of a calendar again entirely focused on the Formula 1 grand prix support bill. The third-tier single-seater series announced its schedule for the coming season just after sister championship GP2 on Friday morning. GP3 will join GP2 in commencing as part of the Spanish GP weekend at Barcelona in mid-May. But whereas the senio...